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Mead is a fermented beverage that uses honey as the primary source of fermentable sugars.

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Mead Aging - Pasteurize or not?

A dry mead is produced where there is just enough honey sugar to ferment to the level the yeast stops at. A sweet mead is made by adding more honey than the yeast can deal with. … If the mead yeast is still active then adding honey will cause it to ferment further. …
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Sealing flip-top bottles with wax

More to the point little bits of wax from the top might find their way into the mead. Being wax they tend to float and make presentation "less than optimal". … Unfiltered/unpasteurised/unsterilised mead (like wine) will age well in a normally sealed bottle. …
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How to sanitise cherries?

No point in using StarSan to sterilise fruit of any description. It will not be very effective as it can only affect the surface and contains phosphoric acid and a surfactant (basically a "detergent" …
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Changing the PH of mead for fermenting necessary?

IMHO mead does not generally need any adjustment of pH levels to ferment correctly. … As the fermentation progresses the pH of the mead will naturally drop due to dissolved carbon dioxide. Mead has been made this way for a long time, long before pH or bacteria had been discovered. …
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